Black Box LWN602HA Manuals

BLACK BOX ® Provides the speed, range, security, adapability, and manageability to replace wired networks at an enterprise level. Intelligent 802.1n wireless access points work together to increase network efficiency. SmartPath™ Enterprise Wireless System User Guide LWN602A LWN600VMA LWN602AE LWN600CM-1 LWN602HA LWN600CM-3 LWN602HAE LWN602WA Order toll-free in the U.S.: Call 877-877-BBOX (outside U.S. call 724-746-5500) FREE technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week: Call 724-746-5500 or fax 724-746-0746 Mailing address: Black Box Corporation, 1000 Park Drive, Lawrence, PA 15055-1018 Web site: www.blackbox.com • E-mail: [email protected] Customer Support Information

Status LEDs Black Box® QuickStart Guide for the SmartPath AP (LWN602HA) This QuickStart guide explains how to set up a SmartPath access point (AP) (LWN602HA) so it can make a network connection to a switch, and how to mount it on a ceiling or wall. Switch DHCP Server Firewall Internet Some other network devices. (They might all be incorporated in the same device, such as a router or firewall.) 1 Ethernet Cable 2 If the switch provides PoE (Power over Ethernet), cabling the SmartPath AP to the switch will cause the SmartPath AP to power on in a few seconds. If the switch does not provide PoE, use the AC/DC power adaptor (optional) to connect the SmartPath to a 100-240 AC power source. Eth0 Connecting to SmartPath EMS Using the Virtual Access Console The five status LEDs on the top of the SmartPath AP (LWN602HA) indicate various states of activity through their color (dark, green, amber, and red) and illumination patterns (steady glow or pulsing). The meanings of the various color and illumination patterns for each LED are explained below: Power • Dark: No power • Steady green: Powered on and the firmware is running normally • Pulsing green: Firmware is booting up • Steady amber: Firmware is being updated • Pulsing amber: Alarm indicating a firmware issue has occurred • Steady red: Alarm indicating a hardware issue has occurred ETH0 and ETH1 • Dark: Ethernet link is down or disabled • Steady green: 1000-Mbps Ethernet link is up but inactive • Pulsing green: 1000-Mbps Ethernet link is up and active • Steady amber: 10-/100-Mbps Ethernet link is up but inactive • Pulsing amber: 10-/100-Mbps Ethernet link is up and active WIFI0 and WIFI1 • Dark: Wireless interface is disabled • Steady green: Wireless interface is in access mode but inactive • Pulsing green: Wireless interface is in access mode and active • Steady amber: Wireless interface is in backhaul mode but inactive • Pulsing amber: Wireless interface is in backhaul mode and is connected with other cluster members • Alternating green and amber: Wireless interface is in backhaul mode and is searching for other cluster members Using your wireless client, scan for wireless networks. If you are within range, an SSID such as “BB-123456” appears. Select it, and when prompted to enter a network key, type blackbox and then click Connect. Beacons Beacons Wireless Client Connect a standard Ethernet cable with RJ-45 connectors from ETH0 on the SmartPath (LWN602HA) to a switch. 4 5 3 Attach the shorter antennas to the 5-GHz connectors... and the longer ones to the 2.4-GHz connectors on the Eth0 port side. Check the IP address of the default gateway that the DHCP server on the SmartPath AP assigned to your client. Then make an SSH or a Telnet connection to the SmartPath AP at that IP address. When prompted to enter your credentials, enter the default Black Box login name (admin) and password (blackbox). C:\>ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . : 1.1.1.2 Subnet Mask . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . : 1.1.1.1 C:\>telnet 1.1.1.1 6 After logging in to the virtual access console, you can view the status of various functions and make configuration changes. Here are some commonly used commands. Use these commands: To do the following: show interface Check the status of both wired and wireless interfaces show interface mgt0 See the network settings (IP address, netmask, default gateway) and VLAN ID of the mgt0 interface no interface mgt0 dhcp client Disable the DHCP client interface mgt0 ip Set the IP address and netmask of the mgt0 interface interface mgt0 native-vlan Set the native (untagged) VLAN that the switch infrastructure in the surrounding wired and wireless network uses show capwap client See CAPWAP client settings and status capwap client server name Set the IP address or domain name of the CAPWAP server (SmartPath EMS Appliance) capwap client vhm-name Set the VHM (virtual SmartPath EMS Appliance) to which the client belongs show cluster See the cluster name show cluster neighbor Check for any nearby cluster members clusters ... Create a cluster and set its parameters show ssid See a list of all SSID names ssid ... Configure an SSID interface { wifi0 | wifi1 } ssid Bind an SSID to a wireless interface in access mode To see a list of commands, and their accompanying CLI Help, type a question mark ( ? ). For example, to see all the show commands, enter show ? If you want to find a command that uses a particular character or string of characters, you can do a search using the following command: show cmds | include , where is the word or string of characters you want to find. Device- and platform-specific CLI reference guides are available on-line. (To learn how to access them, see "Where to go for more information" elsewhere in this document.) As explained in the previous section, after connecting a SmartPath AP to the network and powering it on, it acts as a DHCP client and tries to get its network settings automatically from a DHCP server in VLAN 1. However, if there is no DHCP server in that VLAN, if the native VLAN for the network segment is not 1, or if you just want to assign it a static IP address, then you need to access the Command Line Interface (CLI) and define the network settings yourself. One approach is to use a console cable, which is available from Black Box as an accessory. Another is to use the virtual access console. This is a way of accessing the CLI on a SmartPath wirelessly through a special SSID that the SmartPath, by default, automatically activates for administrative access when it has no configuration and cannot reach its default gateway. The default virtual access console SSID name is “”. The default host name of a SmartPath consists of "BB-" plus the last six digits of its MAC address; for example, BB-123456. In this case, the name of the default virtual access console SSID would be “BB- 123456.” By default, this SSID uses blackbox as the PSK (preshared key) for authenticating user access. To access the virtual access console, do the following: Cable the SmartPath AP to an Ethernet network—a SmartPath AP connected directly to the network like this is called a portal—or place it within radio range of a portal so that it forms a wireless link through the portal to the wired network. This kind of SmartPath AP is called a mesh point. By default, a SmartPath AP acts as a DHCP client and gets its network settings automatically from a DHCP server. (You can also configure the SmartPath AP with static network settings through the CLI. See the next section, “Using the Virtual Access Console,” for information about making a wireless—or “virtual”—console connection to the CLI on the SmartPath AP.) A mesh point initially forms a cluster with its portal using the default cluster cluster0. Through this link, the mesh point can reach the network and get its network settings through a DHCP server. Then it can form a CAPWAP connection with the SmartPath EMS. (To add a mesh point after changing the cluster name, first connect it to the wired network. Next, push a configuration with the new cluster name to it from the SmartPath EMS. Finally, deploy it as a mesh point. CAPWAP (Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points) is a protocol that access points use to contact a management device and communicate with it. After getting its network settings through DHCP, the SmartPath AP then acts as a CAPWAP client and tries to reach a CAPWAP server, which in this case is a SmartPath EMS Appliance. If the SmartPath AP is configured with the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name or if it receives DHCP attributes specifying either a SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name, it uses those settings to contact it. If the SmartPath AP is not configured with SmartPath EMS settings and does not receive them through DHCP, it then checks if it can do a DNS lookup to resolve “SmartPathEMS.” to an IP address (“” is the domain that the DHCP server assigned to the SmartPath AP). Finally, if none of the previous efforts enables the SmartPath AP to contact the SmartPath EMS, the SmartPath AP broadcasts CAPWAP Discovery messages on its subnet. If the SmartPath EMS is in the same broadcast domain, it responds, and the two devices negotiate a secure CAPWAP connection. If SmartPath EMS is in the same subnet as the SmartPath AP, the SmartPath AP finds and connects to it automatically. However, if SmartPath EMS is in a different subnet from the SmartPath AP, you must configure settings on the SmartPath AP, the DHCP server, or DNS server so that one of the other SmartPath EMS discovery methods can succeed: (1) Manually configure the SmartPath AP with the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name. (2) Configure a DHCP server to return the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name in one of the DHCP options. (3) Configure the local authoritative DNS server with an A-record or a host record that resolves “SmartPath EMS” to the SmartPath EMS IP address. When the SmartPath AP has a specific IP address for the SmartPath EMS, it can then send unicast CAPWAP Discovery Request messages to it at that address. a Different Subnets (Use of DHCP options or DNS resolution) When SmartPath EMS is in a different subnet, do one of the following: (1) set the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name on the SmartPath AP; or (2) configure a DHCP server to return the SmartPath EMS IP address or domain name; or (3) add an A-record or a host record that resolves “smartpath.” to the SmartPath EMS IP address on a DNS server that is authoritative for that domain. Router Unicast DHCP or DNS Server Same Subnet (Automatic Discovery) The SmartPath AP broadcasts CAPWAP Discovery Request messages until it receives a response from SmartPath EMS, which is a CAPWAP server, in the same subnet. Then they negotiate a secure CAPWAP connection with each other. Broadcast SmartPath EMS CAPWAP Server SmartPath AP CAPWAP Client b